Designing ecotoxico-logistical batteries by SPECTRAL-SAR maps

QSAR and SPECTRAL-SAR in Computational Ecotoxicology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 39-68

  Putz, Ana Maria ^a,b   Putz, Mihai V ^b   Ostafe, Vasile ^b  

^a ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^b WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Hydrophobicity; Microorganisms; Steric effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901620535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b13111     Document Type: Chapter

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